Re: [PATCH 04/20] swapon.2: remove header from synopsis

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On 05/20/2014 01:02 AM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The <asm/page.h> header is not readily available, and the comment
> seems to indicate that it is for getting PAGE_SIZE. But it is never
> mentioned why one would need to know that, and it is in any case
> better obtained using sysconf(), provided by <unistd.h>.

Hi Rasmus,

Agreed. I'm not sure how that strangeness ever got into the page.
Patch applied. Thanks!

Cheers,

Michael



> ---
>  man2/swapon.2 | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/swapon.2 b/man2/swapon.2
> index 9ab380c..18f8655 100644
> --- a/man2/swapon.2
> +++ b/man2/swapon.2
> @@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ swapon, swapoff \- start/stop swapping to file/device
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
>  .B #include <unistd.h>
>  .br
> -.B #include <asm/page.h>     /* to find PAGE_SIZE */
> -.br
>  .B #include <sys/swap.h>
>  .sp
>  .BI "int swapon(const char *" path ", int " swapflags );
> 


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